This is rare for me to say... but this may be one of the best horrors...

Rating: 8/10 (2 August 2003)

Some people said "This movie stinks!" for one main reason: They all expected a gory bloodbath which lacked plot and characterization... which I'll admit, I can enjoy as well, heh heh heh. However, this film showed in the most realistic manner how the human race can destroy itself, and the results of our own ignorance. The "rage virus" goes to the theory about how formal communication separates us from the animals, and when certain characters are contaminated, they no longer have that and basically go by primal needs and emotions destroying everything and everyone, pulling the human race back down all the way below animal races. This is expressed best not through a sequence with the "infected", but ironically enough by a group of horses which now run free after the incidents, with an entire family of horses running alongside others across a grassy field. It is also shown just how easy it is for a loved one to be taken away from us by such a virus causes some emotional disturbances and a lot of "what if?" questions. It also shows how when we're put in a crisis of such high magnitude how even non-"infected" can revert to primal instincts and once again, we destroy ourselves. This is one of the few horror flicks since those of "Dawn of the Dead" and "The Omega Man" to have these social commentaries, and in the world we live in now with terrorist attacks, newer viruses, foreign wars, it makes you start to wonder... how much longer will something like this only be a movie? How much longer...